That line works for me with gnu make 4.4.1. What version are you using and what's the EXACT output and FULL makefile that you see a problem with?
Philip Guenther On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM DeDf <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found a bug regarding inline comments. When adding an inline comment # > after an = assignment statement, if there is some space before the #, > compilation fails. > > If a makefile contains the following statements: > TARGET = output > This line works fine. > > TARGET = output # test > This line reports an error. > > Suggested fix: > read.c remove_comments(): > > static void > remove_comments (char *line) > { > if (line) > { > char *comment = find_map_unquote (line, MAP_COMMENT|MAP_VARIABLE); > if (comment) > { > //char b = 0; > *comment = '\0'; /* Cut off the line at the #. */ > > while (comment != line) > { > if (--comment == line) > break; > > if (*comment == ' ' || *comment == '\t') // Remove ' ' and > '\t' before comment. > { > // if (!b) > // { > // printf("remove_comments() |%s|\n", line); > // b = 1; > // } > > *comment = '\0'; > } > else > break; > } > } > } > } > > Thanks, > form DeDf
